Georg
Friedrich Haas’ 70 minute work for 24 instruments, in vain, is one of the most celebrated works in the composer’s
catalogue.

It has been a highly praised in the New York Times (Vivienne Schweitzer wrote of “waves of opulently
strange, beautiful sounds”); it was the
central part of an 8-hour ‘symposium’ concert by Klangforum Wien; and has already
been performed 31 times since its world première in 2000.

Now,
in a kind of pan-Alpine derby, the work is being performed twice in the same evening
at two different major festivals (Saturday 13 Aug).

The
Lucerne concert is part of a special focus on Haas this year, as part of which
his opera Nacht (night is the
central theme of the festival this year) can be heard (17 Sept) as well as his string quartets, including the world première of the String Quartet No 7 by the Arditti Quartet (10 Sept), and various
ensemble works.

See all forthcoming performances of works by Georg Friedrich Haas in our online calendar.